Expenditure Quota

An expenditure quota is the maximum expenditure amount that a customer using monthly settlement can spend on Huawei Cloud. It is not a payment method. You cannot use this quota for payment or as a basis for reconciliation and repayment.

Expenditure quota is not available for customers associated with a partner in the reseller model or enterprise member accounts.

Impacts on Services After Your Expenditure Quota Is Exceeded

If the usage of your expenditure quota reached or exceeded 100% and you did not make repayments in a timely manner, the grace period starts (15 days by default).
During the period, your account is restricted, and new cloud services are blocked. Some cloud services that have been enabled cannot be used. If you do not make payments before the grace period ends, the retention period starts (15 days by default).
During the retention period, your pay-per-use resources (including spot instances) will be frozen, and RIs paid with partial and no upfront will be unsubscribed from without handling fees. The use of RIs paid with all upfront, yearly/monthly resources, and resource packages will not be affected. After the retention period ends, all your pay-per-use resources (including spot instances) will be released.

Expenditure Quota Usage Notification

If your expenditure quota usage reaches the threshold (80% by default, which can be modified), Huawei Cloud will send you an SMS message or email.
If your expenditure quota usage still reaches 100% during the grace period, Huawei Cloud will send you SMS messages and emails 1, 3, 7, and 15 days prior to the start of the retention period.
If your expenditure quota usage still reaches 100% during the retention period, Huawei Cloud will send you SMS messages and emails 1, 3, 7, and 15 days before releasing the resources.

These are urgent notifications and cannot be disabled.

After receiving an expenditure quota notification, you can take the following measures to ensure that your services are not affected:

Make payments to Huawei in the sequence of the due date of the bills.
If you cannot pay in a timely manner, contact your account manager to increase the expenditure quota.

Viewing the Expenditure Quota

Go to the Expenditure Quota page.
View the ratio of the remaining quota to the total quota.
- Remaining Quota: remaining expenditure quota available to a customer
- Total Quota: total expenditure quota that Huawei Cloud grants to a customer
- Used Quota = Cumulative billed amount + Estimated unbilled amount – Cash account balance – Cash coupon balance - Flexi-Purchase coupon balance.
  - Cumulative Billed Amount: total amount pending payment from all bills
  - Estimated Unbilled Amount: estimated unbilled amount pending payment, which will be the monthly settlement fee in the bill
- When the ratio of the used quota is 0%, the remaining quota is equal to the total quota.
- When the ratio of the used quota is 80%, your expenditure quota is about to be used up. To prevent services from being affected, repay in a timely manner.
- When the ratio of the used quota is greater than or equal to 100%, the expenditure quota has been used up. Fees will be automatically deducted from your added credit card. After the payment is successful, your expenditure quota is restored.
Click Edit to modify the alert threshold.

The threshold is 80% by default. You can modify it as required.